Howard Francis Taylor (born 1939) is an American sociologist and Professor of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

Emeritus at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

, where he was formerly the director of the African-American Studies program. He is known for his 1980 book ''The IQ Game'', in which he reanalyzed data from several previous reared-apart

twin studies Twin studies are studies conducted on identical or fraternal twins. They aim to reveal the importance of environmental and genetic influences for traits, phenotypes, and disorders. Twin research is considered a key tool in behavioral genetics ...

of the

heritability of IQ Research on the heritability of IQ inquires into the degree of variation in IQ within a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population. There has been significant controversy in the academic community about the ...

. The book concluded, controversially, that the influence of genes on individual differences in IQ scores was small.

Education and career

Taylor graduated

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from

Hiram College Hiram College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Hiram, Ohio. It was founded in 1850 as the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute by Amos Sutton Hayden and other members of the Disciples of Christ Church. The college is nonsectarian and c ...

in 1961 and received his

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from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

in 1966. In addition to Princeton University, he has also taught at the

Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. The university has prog ...

and Syracuse University. He first joined the faculty at Princeton in 1973.

Awards and positions

Taylor served as president of the

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from 1996 to 1997. In 1998, he received the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. In 2000, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching from Princeton.

Books

*''Balance in Small Groups'' (

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, 1970) *''The IQ Game: A Methodological Inquiry into the Heredity-Environment Controversy'' ( Rutgers University Press/ Harvester Press, 1980)

References

External links

Faculty pageHoward F. Taylor Black Leadership Network study papers
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Princeton University Library. Special Collections
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